2023 Susana Esteban 'Vinyle', Vinho Regional Alentejano, Portugal Comtes Lafon partial whole-cluster inclusion

partial whole-cluster inclusion

but promising remarkable cellar evolution

The first vintage was 2021

After pressing the must is transferred to sealed 100L casks (caratelli) along with a little bit of the "mother

and 5% Chardonnay

2023 Susana Esteban 'Vinyle', Vinho Regional Alentejano, Portugal Comtes Lafon partial whole-cluster inclusionSusana collaborated with Emmanuel Lassaigne in 2020 to make a traditional method sparkling wine in Portalegre, initially fermented in two barrels from Lassaigne's cellar in Champagne. That wine is just now about to be disgorged, but Susana never sent the barrels back, and she decided to make a special white wine from the same vineyard so as to be able to continue to highlight that special place and cooperage. The wine, of which only two 500 L barrels